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Topic: Photo of the week 360 (September 24, 2011)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 09-24-2011 02:23 AM
   
 NASA X-38 flight test engineer Mike Fossum is all smiles following the first free flight of the first X-38 prototype in March 1998. Two months after this photo was taken Fossum was selected as an astronaut. Ed Hengeveld |
East-Frisian
Member Posts: 586
From: Germany
Registered: Apr 2005
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posted 09-24-2011 02:41 AM
Looks a little bit, like the space plane had a damage. Fossum with a pirate flag (?), smoking a cigar, while a technican is looking on the damage. In the background a crane. But the spaceplane is of course not damaged. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-24-2011 02:56 AM
The story behind the Jolly Roger flag and the fate of the X-38 pictured can be read here. |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1031
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 09-24-2011 11:17 AM
When I went to JSC a while ago, I saw the test model. |
David Carey
Member Posts: 782
From:
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 09-24-2011 11:35 AM
Gig 'em, Mike! |
Jay Chladek
Member Posts: 2272
From: Bellevue, NE, USA
Registered: Aug 2007
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posted 09-24-2011 11:25 PM
I was at the museum in Ashland today and the X-38 is still there of course. It needs to get repainted in its old test day colors, but it still looks pretty good all things considered. |
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